What a party…
Every so often, The Legal Genealogist turns to a marvelous little program written by John Cardinal called On This Day.
It’s no longer supported, mostly because it runs against the database of a now-defunct genealogy program called Master Genealogist. But it works perfectly for those of us who won’t give up our Master Genealogist databases to report on who was born or married or died on this day.
And I was kind of surprised when I was poking around yesterday to see that, according to the program, absolutely nothing whatsoever happened in any my family lines on any June 12th. Ever.
Not a single birth, marriage, death, burial… nothing recorded as having happened on that day.
Which sent me off looking at other things that might have happened around this time in June that could serve as blog fodder.
And I came across a quirk.
One particular family had a bunch of June babies.
I mean, a bunch of June babies.
• Margaret Etta Livingston, born 6 June 1880, in Alabama.1
• Richard Alonzo Lon Livingston, born 9 June 1883, in Alabama.2
• John Jackson Livingston, born 14 June 1885, in Alabama.3
• Leva Pyron Livingston, born 21 June 1891, in Texas.4
That wasn’t all the kids, of course — not in my family, and these are all half-siblings to my great grandmother Eula (Baird) Livingston Robertson, who was born in Alabama in October 1869.5 The oldest of the Livingston half-siblings, Lula, was born in Alabama in July 1877;6 there were two born in April — Noel in 18877 and Susie in 1889;8 and the baby, Arthur, was born in September.9
But even still… it makes you wonder, doesn’t it?
Just what a birthday party there must have been in June in the Livingston family!
And just what Martha Louise (Shew) Baird Livingston and Abijah L. Livingston were up to all those nights in September…
Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “Those June babies,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 13 June 2020).
SOURCES
- Texas Department of Health, Death Certificate No. 39760, Margaret Etta Roberts (7 July 1956); Bureau of Vital Statistics, Austin. ↩
- Texas Department of Health, Death Certificate No. 17711, Richard Lon Livingston (5 Apr 1947); Bureau of Vital Statistics, Austin. ↩
- See Registration Card, John Jackson Livingston, 12 Feb 1918, Tillman County, Oklahoma; digital images, “U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 June 2020). Also Registration Card, John Jackson Livingston, 25 Apr 1942, Tillman County, Oklahoma; digital images, “U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942,” Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 June 2020). ↩
- See Frederick City Cemetery (Frederick, Tillman County, Oklahoma; on N2200 Road north of Statehighway 5, Latitude 342357N, Longitude 0990253W), Leva P. Livingston marker; photograph by J.G. Russell, 25 Apr 2003. Also, Registration Card, Leva Pyron Livingston, 5 June 1917, Tillman County, Oklahoma; digital images, “U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 June 2020). Also Registration Card, Leva Livingston, 25 Apr 1942, Tillman County, Oklahoma; digital images, “U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942,” Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 June 2020). ↩
- See Virginia Department of Health, Death Certificate no. 6367 (1954), Eula Robertson (13 Mar 1954); Division of Vital Records, Richmond. ↩
- See 1900 U.S. census, Williamson County, Texas, Justice Precinct 2, population schedule, enumeration district (ED) 125, p. 117B (stamped), dwelling 143, family 154, person; digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 June 2020); citing National Archive microfilm publication T623, roll 1680. ↩
- Texas Department of Health, Death Certificate No. 31994, Noel Burton Livingston (13 Jun 1937); Bureau of Vital Statistics, Austin. Noel, you may have noticed, died exactly 83 years ago today… ↩
- See Susie Kidwell entry, 1965; database, “United States Social Security Death Index,” FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 13 June 2020). ↩
- See Arthur C. Livingston entry, 1963; database, “California Death Index, 1940-1997,” Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 13 June 2020). ↩
Was the parents’ wedding anniversary in September?
Interesting idea, but no: late October.
My father’s birthday was 1 September….
And you are the delightful result of THAT little celebration…! 🙂
I suspect nothing more prosaic than that the infants were all weaned at roughly the same age. 🙂
My sweet grandma’s birthday was June 12.
I’ll adopt her as a cousin-in-law! 🙂
Maybe after a hot summer with no air conditioning, September was cooler and more conducive to cuddling.